Flipping Heck! The Don Castor Investigations Book 1 edition by SD Hayes Graham Williams Literature Fiction eBooks
Download As PDF : Flipping Heck! The Don Castor Investigations Book 1 edition by SD Hayes Graham Williams Literature Fiction eBooks 
After a slight accident involving a laboratory and plenty of fire, Don Castor decided on a career change. One correspondence course in being a P.I. later, Don finds himself recovering missing felines and occasionally the odd kidnapped heiress. Life seems pretty normal. Bills to pay (lots), clients to help (few).
Until that is, he comes downstairs one morning to find his latest clients waiting for him. Genetically enlarged, mind-reading, talking penguins. Accompanied by an undercover reporter (not genetically enlarged). And they just happen to need nuclear material.
Finally convinced that he isn't in some weird dream, Don reluctantly accepts the case. Now comes the challenge; tracking down the required materials, while keeping a group of nine penguins secret in central London.
Elsewhere in the wider world though a confused camera crew, led by intrepid wildlife filmmaker Charles Hattenburg, is causing trouble. The eccentric Baron Ludvig Von Canton-Ess is trying not to cause trouble but is failing, and Don's bank manager is less than happy...
Flipping Heck! The Don Castor Investigations Book 1 edition by SD Hayes Graham Williams Literature Fiction eBooks
~I am not quite sure what the author was trying to accomplish with this book. If he wanted silliness…then he accomplished it. If he was looking to write an understandable mystery story…then he missed the mark.~I did not care for the interruptions to the story by a narrator telling me that the author was saving some part of the story for a later chapter.
~For the sake of the story, I can accept talking animals, time travel, alternate realities, etc. However, there must be something holding it all together. This book was too scattered, again the narrator interruptions greatly added to this confusion.
~I was not too impressed with Don Castor…not my kind of private investigator.
~It was a struggle to read…I gave up at 21%...figured my time was more valuable reading something else.
~I cannot recommend this book
Product details
|
Tags : Flipping Heck! (The Don Castor Investigations Book 1) - Kindle edition by SD Hayes, Graham Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Flipping Heck! (The Don Castor Investigations Book 1).,ebook,SD Hayes, Graham Williams,Flipping Heck! (The Don Castor Investigations Book 1),FICTION Action & Adventure,FICTION Humorous
People also read other books :
- Lock Key Volume 1 Lily Haycraft 9781515308836 Books
- Sally Christmas Cupid edition by Katie L Thompson Literature Fiction eBooks
- Tyranny to Freedom Diary of a Former Stalinist eBook Ludwik Kowalski
- The Masada Complex edition by Avraham Azrieli Literature Fiction eBooks
- Mission for a Queen The Rannoch Fraser Mysteries Book 12 edition by Tracy Grant Romance eBooks
Flipping Heck! The Don Castor Investigations Book 1 edition by SD Hayes Graham Williams Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
At about 100 pages in I had to call it quits. I won't say it was bad but the narrative style was driving me crazy. The constant interruption of the story by the narrator (author) became more than I could take.
In that time I never found a discernible plot. I think the author was going for Donald Westlake and ended up channeling Monty Python instead. Never was a Monty Python fan.
Maybe it got better but I couldn't take anymore to find out. Glad I got this one free. My next stop is to delete it from my library.
I was laughing out loud before I'd finished reading the Acknowledgements. The tone is conversational as the author treats the reader more as a new friend he's met at the pub than as a traditional narrator speaking to an audience. Though I'm not a drinking woman, I wanted to pull up a pint and snicker into the foam for hours on end (alas, work and sleep got in the way). It reminded me of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" in which the actors have scripted moments when they "break character" and talk to the audience about the play. Hayes does this, with both the narrator and the characters bantering back and forth with each other and the reader. He mocks the dialogue info-dump and the cheesy flashback in such a way that, instead of ignoring the white elephant in the room, he just gets up and dances with it (figuratively speaking...the plot really revolves around penguins, with only a brief reference to elephants near the beginning). In this way, he doesn't just poke fun at common story-telling ploys--he blasts holes in them and takes all pretense away.
In short, this novel was bizarre, irreverent, completely improbable, and most importantly, hilarious. Although the wit reminded me of Douglas Adams, the whole way the book proceeded was even more thoroughly unconventional than Hitchhiker's Guide.
~I am not quite sure what the author was trying to accomplish with this book. If he wanted silliness…then he accomplished it. If he was looking to write an understandable mystery story…then he missed the mark.
~I did not care for the interruptions to the story by a narrator telling me that the author was saving some part of the story for a later chapter.
~For the sake of the story, I can accept talking animals, time travel, alternate realities, etc. However, there must be something holding it all together. This book was too scattered, again the narrator interruptions greatly added to this confusion.
~I was not too impressed with Don Castor…not my kind of private investigator.
~It was a struggle to read…I gave up at 21%...figured my time was more valuable reading something else.
~I cannot recommend this book
0 Response to "⇒ Descargar Free Flipping Heck! The Don Castor Investigations Book 1 edition by SD Hayes Graham Williams Literature Fiction eBooks"
Post a Comment